Sheetpan Spatchcock Chicken Dinner

Sheetpan Spatchcock Chicken Dinner

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Kosher

Keyword: Egg-free, Fleishig, Healthy, Husband-approved, Meat, Nut-free, Shabbat, Super Simple, Weeknight Dinner, Wheat-free

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 1 15

Total Time: 1 25

Servings:

Calories: 824kcal

Crispy whole chicken with delicious vegetables all roasted up to a perfect, flavorful brown. How do you make a whole chicken on a sheetpan? With the trendy spatchcock method! I will show you how to butterfly a whole chicken, set up the sheetpan, stick it in the oven and an hour later...come back to perfect deliciousness and a smell that will have your whole family gathering for dinner!

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Equipment

Sheetpan
Meat Shears

Ingredients

CHICKEN

1 Onion sliced
1 Broiler Chicken 3-4 lbs
½ Cups Oil
to taste Kosher Salt
to taste Black Pepper
½ teaspoons Onion Powder
¼ teaspoons Garlic Powder
1 teaspoons Paprika
1 teaspoons Mustard Powder

VEGETABLES

4 Potatoes peeled and cut into chunks
2 Red Bell Peppers veins and seeds removed, cut into chunks
4 Tablespoons Oil
1 teaspoons Kosher Salt
½ teaspoons Black Pepper
1 teaspoons Paprika

Instructions

Drizzle ¼ Cups of the oil over the parchment. Place the onion slices toward the center of the sheetpan. You can put smaller rings loosely inside larger ones.
Spatchcock the chicken. **please watch the video** For this, you will need sharp meat shears (found inside most knife block sets). Place the chicken directly in front of you with it’s back up. The back is the side the drumsticks point away from. If your drumsticks are in the air, flip the chicken over. Make sure the legs are toward you, the neck facing away.
Now with your fingers, find the spine by placing a thumb inside the whole. Pinch the spine to steady it while you shear along the side of it. You will hear the ribs cracking and snapping as you go. Cut all the way from one whole to the other. The chicken will now open up a little.
Continue to hold on to the spine and shear the other side. Then discard the spine. Take a paper towel and pat out any juices from the inside of the chicken
Generously salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Then lift the chicken and lay it over the onions on your sheetpan. The legs should turn outward. Salt and Pepper the skin of the chicken. Tuck any onions that you can see back under the chicken. Exposed onions will burn.
Sprinkle the Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Paprika, and Mustard Powder evenly over the chicken. Then drizzle over the remaining oil. Rub the oil and spice mixture into the skin. Thoroughly wash and sanitize your cooking area and hands.
Now in a large bowl, add your pieces of Potato and Red Pepper. Toss. Then add the Oil, Kosher Salt, Black Pepper and Paprika. Toss to evenly coat. Spread the potato mixture around the open areas of the sheetpan in a single layer.
Now put your sheetpan in the oven and roast at 375 for 1 hour (meat temp of 165). Allow the chicken to rest outside of the oven for 5 minutes while you plate the potatoes, then you can move and carve it up. This allows the juices to return to the meat for a more moist chicken. Serve the onions either mixed in with the potatoes, or as a topping to the chicken.

Video

Notes

This meal is perfect for a weeknight because you can get it in the oven and then do homework with kids or whatever you need to. It’s a one-pan dinner that will feed the whole family. You can freeze or refrigerate leftovers. In order to keep the chicken from drying out, include some of the juices from the pan when packing up the chicken.

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